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The incident had been so rapid that the door closed on the departing pair before the other members had time to understand what was happening. Then a sense of the indignity2 put upon them by Osric Dane’s unceremonious desertion began to contend with the confused feeling that they had been cheated out of their due without exactly knowing how or why.
There was a silence, during which Mrs. Ballinger, with a perfunctory hand, rearranged the skilfully3 grouped literature at which her distinguished4 guest had not so much as glanced; then Miss Van Vluyck tartly5 pronounced: “Well, I can’t say that I consider Osric Dane’s departure a great loss.”
This confession6 crystallised the resentment7 of the other members, and Mrs. Leveret exclaimed: “I do believe she came on purpose to be nasty!”
It was Mrs. Plinth’s private opinion that Osric Dane’s attitude toward the Lunch Club might have been very different had it welcomed her in the majestic8 setting of the Plinth drawing-rooms; but not liking9 to reflect on the inadequacy10 of Mrs. Ballinger’s establishment she sought a roundabout satisfaction in depreciating11 her lack of foresight12.
“I said from the first that we ought to have had a subject ready. It’s what always happens when you’re unprepared. Now if we’d only got up Xingu — ”
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generosity
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fascination
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disparaging
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assortment
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encyclopaedia
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n.百科全书 | |
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gasped
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awfully
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